Sentences with phrase «costly new power plants»

The company doesn't plan to deploy sensors that determine real - time power needs and allow operators to adjust production, thus avoiding running or building costly new power plants.

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It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

Located just 38 miles north of New York City, should the 2 GW power plant have an accident on the scale of that which took out the Fukushima plant in Japan, other new analysis by NRDC shows that it would be 10 - 100 times more costly — Fukushima is estimated to cost at least $ 60 billion to clean up — requiring the evacuation of millions, should a fallout plume extend southwarNew York City, should the 2 GW power plant have an accident on the scale of that which took out the Fukushima plant in Japan, other new analysis by NRDC shows that it would be 10 - 100 times more costly — Fukushima is estimated to cost at least $ 60 billion to clean up — requiring the evacuation of millions, should a fallout plume extend southwarnew analysis by NRDC shows that it would be 10 - 100 times more costly — Fukushima is estimated to cost at least $ 60 billion to clean up — requiring the evacuation of millions, should a fallout plume extend southwards.

The fact that DVP is now trying to enter into a whole new contract to ship gas to the same power plants via a much costlier pipeline ought to raise a lot of eyebrows.

The end result is that aging power plants like Fisk and Crawford will either have to install costly new retrofits or shut down altogether.

New fossil - fuelled and nuclear power plants already are more costly than older ones, mainly because they have to be compliant with higher environmental and safety standards.

The EPA (1) does not have the authority to regulate existing power plants, (2) must finalize efforts with new plants before doing so, (3) has no authority over states» energy generation, (4) imposes too - costly, inadequately flexible, and physically impossible standards, and (5) exceeds EPA the Federal Power Act authority, they arpower plants, (2) must finalize efforts with new plants before doing so, (3) has no authority over states» energy generation, (4) imposes too - costly, inadequately flexible, and physically impossible standards, and (5) exceeds EPA the Federal Power Act authority, they arPower Act authority, they argued.

Those few that have been proposed (carbon capture and sequestration for all new coal - fired power plants, geo - engineering schemes, switch to renewables such as wind and solar, etc.) would be extremely costly, could result in unknown and unintended negative consequences and would not bring any significant reduction of theoretical greenhouse warming by 2100.